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The U.S. military spent hundreds of millions of dollars earlier this year in a six-week barrage intended to stop the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from targeting ships in the Red Sea.
Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...
Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution accused of buying smuggled minerals from Congolese rebels, fuelling insurgency.
A Reuters analysis of customs records found Boss Mining in 2024 exported at least 150 metric tons of coltan worth $6.6 ...
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement Friday in Washington to end fighting that has killed ...
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...
Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...
Many of these witnesses, who were both Hutu and Tutsi, knew the defendant before the genocide and lived with him as neighbors and friends,” federal prosecutors wrote in a letter to U.S. District ...
Nsabumukunzi was a “sector counsilor” in Kibirizi, in the Butare Prefecture in Southern Rwanda, where he “held a leadership position and oversaw the violence and killing of Tutsis,” according to the ...
However, the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 ignited the genocide, as Hutu extremists used the power vacuum to target Tutsi and moderate Hutu leaders.